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Notes
1 Each month, we gather with any adults who show up to play games with some connection to mathematics (Codenames is a crowd favorite, as are SET, Flux, Even Quads, 24, but not The Royal Game of Ur), all in the beautiful museum facilities in the heart of New York City. If you’re in town, please come and join us! Information can be found at https://momath.org/equilibrium/.
2 Du Sautoy quotes the novelist Trevanian who compares Go to Chess: “Go is to chess as philosophy is to double-entry accounting.”
3 You can stream the entertaining 2023 documentary “Ruthless: Monopoly’s Secret History” [Citation5] on PBS.
4 1–d, 2–e, 3–b, 4–c, 5–a.
5 Editors Note: This book was reviewed in the February 2023 issue of this Monthly
6 If you crave more explanation, the authors of this review have recently published posts in the MAA Math Values Blog explaining the connections between finite geometry and the games SET [Citation3] and Even Quads [Citation4], with additional entries to follow.
7 Editors Note: This book was reviewed, by this editor, in the March 2018 issue of this Monthly
8 In post-WWII Germany, games based on war themes were restricted, so developers came up with different kinds of themes for their games. Settlers of Catan is an excellent product of this postwar era.